Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321918550
Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 20, Problem 5MC
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Gerald Hansen, a Norwegian Microbiologist was the one who found leprosy as a dreadful disease which is caused by bacterial infection in the year 1873.
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